So what's the problem? Dimon cited three examples of where the government went wrong: The debt ceiling crisis, the failure to adopt Simpson-Bowles and what he calls the "constant attack on business."

When asked why, at a time of record profits, Corporate America isn't hiring more, Dimon said American businesses had added 4 million jobs in the past two years. "I don't think government policy had anything to do with it," Dimon said. "It should have been 8 million.